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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
Harivāhana was the son of Meghavāhana the king whose command was fit to be obeyed by Malayasundarī's sire Kusumasekhara who to begin with was the overlord of the whole of Dakşiņāpatha and later on became a subsidiary vassal of king Meghavāhana whose commander Vajrāyudha has been described as the overlord of the earth of the entire Dākṣiṇātyajanapada, reduced to the state of subsidy paying vassal by him and thereby making Meghavāhana the overlord of the lord of Dākṣinātya Janapada (Kusumasekhara), whose expanse of the cantonment was ubiquitous enough to cover the groves of the shore of the southern ocean, who had obtained luxuriance in the east as well as in the west, like the expanse of the precincts of Mount Malaya.' And Meghavāhana offering the governorship of whole of the Uttarāpatha consisting of Kāśmīra and other mandalas including all the main towns and villages to Harivāhana and to Samaraketu Janapadas headed by Anga and others along with all their estates etc. encompass the whole of Uttarāpatha (the northern range ) and Anga (the eastern range of Gauda Vanga etc.)? After Harivāhana became the Supreme sovereign of the Bhāratavarşa on the abdication of Meghavāhana, he handed over his own governorship of Uttarāpatha etc. over to him.'
During his sojourn for the conquest of the quarters Harivāhana had reached Kāmarüpa visiting the insurmountable Mandaraka hill, the stream called sarāvati, the devāgrahāra foremost of all the villages of all the mandala donated by queen Madirāvati at the time of the solar eclipse, being limited to the extent of ten thousand ploughs, the Dharmāranya built by minister Surānanda, the border land where Nītivarmā had put an end to the life of the lord of the Hūnas passing through the bhukti of prince Samaraketu, visiting the village and town given in honorarium to Kamalagupta, the prince of the Kalingas (746HHHHT CITC Sierra :) and witnessing the sports of the sylvan fauna, where welcomed by the overlord of Prāgjyotisa who had shown devotion day in and day out, he left his encampment in order to enjoy the chase on the out precinct of river Lauhitya (Brahmaputra) and met all the kings of the Uttarāpatha who came to bid their homage as subservients after having got the news of his arrival from their spies.
1. TM.Sm ed. p. 343 Vol. II p. 192 Vol. III p. 176. 2. Ibid. Vol. II p. 232. 3. Ibid. Sm. ed. p. 426. 4. Ibid. Vol. II p. 426. 5. Ibid. Vol. III pp. 32-33.
